The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

I reckon he would be absolutely delighted if he won the Tailteann cup this year.

We are in the middle ground though if we were in the Tailteann we probably would be favourites and should be winning it, while in the All- Ireland series we would likely be the whipping boys as our league standing will leave us as fourth seeds and in a group like last year.

I tell you i was more depressed driving home from Castlebar last year than i was after the Tailteann cup final.

Interesting wearecavan podcast last night, mostly all about the new rules. Found myself in full agreement with Damien Donohoe (apart from allowing the goalie attack, goalie should be left in his goals). I have to laugh at Jim McGuinness concern about "player fatigue" and Dermot McCabe awful concerned about the poor referees. You couldnt make it up. Damien is 100% correct, its all about these guys losing controls and maybe when they lose control people might ask why one of the above gets 150k+ to manage a county team in an amateur sport. As for the Meath manager, who knows what he is smoking because his team were complete shite under the old rules.

I know Paul Fitz is not happy with how t hey were trialled all at once and in an important competition. But to be honest, while I agree somewhat that doing them all at once wasn't a great idea I do think trialing in some other tournament wouldn't have given it the test it needed. I think Paul is exaggerating the negatives on this one to be honest.

Have to say I didn't like this pod. Spent 90% of it talking about the rules, and not much discussion on the match. I like the 2 lads, and usually end up veering one way or the other to either one depending on the topic, but issue here is that they were very far apart on their views here and the detail is likely somewhere in the middle. I wouldn't be as drastic as Paul on them, but not as accepting as Damien. Like near anything these days, a rebuttal of a point doesn't mean the extreme opposite, but that's the way debates seem to go these days. Think a lot got lost in all this

Pod has been good recently. The Michael Hannon post match is very good, but I still like a good detailed mid week review after all has calmed down (especially after a good win), yet seems to be going off on tangents for bulk of the pod.

Actually really what I wanted was a 15 minute deep dive detail on Jason McLoughlin :D

Anyone in the know here on the lads on the Minor panel, what are they like this year?

Is it the Lavey man, the Denn man or the Gowna man? All are good forwards but very young to be hyping up yet. Two are still minor next year.

From knowing this age group, they look a decent standard to me but then you don’t know what the quality is outside the county. Be interesting to see how they fare.

It's one of them, but didn't name exactly who just for the overhype element but think all going well the player in question could be one of best talents around.

Denn have five or six lads on the u16 panel this year yet find themselves in Division 2. You’d nearly swear they had a bit of pull somewhere.

We need some sports psychologists in Cavan. Minors lead what seemed to be the whole game (well anytime I checked Twitter) but managed to lose. They had been 1-6 to 0-4 up at HT.

Minor is U17 so the majority of them are 17 or turning it this year (there is a few U16s in the panel). I probably was harsh on the players though.

We’ve yet another team with a novice manager. It’d be nice if we actually put some managerial experience behind our teams.

What experience has Gallagher? Can’t say I know anything about him as a manager. I googled the name and two articles came up. One that he was Tyrone minor manager a decade ago and the other was about him stepping down from a Fermanagh club team in 2014. Nothing recent.

Cian Mackey was a top player. Can’t say I know anything about his coaching career.

From the look of that article, he was over Tyrone development squads a decade ago, what has he been doing since? Certainly nothing showing online.

So Mackey is as inexperienced as a coach then as the actual manager is? Thanks for pointing that out.

Like I said, it’d be nice if our county board backed our underage teams with some funding and experience rather than cutting corners at every available opportunity but, sure look, we’ll have a nice hotel in Breffni when we’re in Division 4. The people of Carlow & Wicklow can stay the night.

Cian Mackey was with Carrickmacross last year.